Select committee: Environmental Audit Committee
Recommendation 30
First Report - Biodiversity in the UK: bloom or bust?
Published 30 Jun 2021
Paragraph 135
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Recommendation (the committee's words)
We recommend the Government commission a review of the operation of ‘perverse subsidies’ in the UK economy. This must entail the identification, assessment and tracking of public expenditure harmful to biodiversity, and the publication of data on the extent of such subsidies. Once such subsidies have been identified, Ministers must act to readdress the balance, removing harmful subsidies and re-directing money to nature conservation and recovery.
From: Environmental Audit Committee, First Report - Biodiversity in the UK: bloom or bust? (HC 136), paragraph 135, 30 June 2021
Government response
The government responded to the whole report on 30 September 2021 (deadline 30 August 2021).